[Note: this article was originally published May 21, 2022, by FATE Magazine.]

Preface: My Maury Island “Origin Story.”

I first heard about the Maury Island Incident on a Saturday, October 8, 2011. I recall this date clearly. I’d watched the premiere of Ken Burns’ Prohibition documentary earlier in the week. A small piece of the story was about bootlegger Roy Olmstead’s final Prohibition-era arrest — an arrest that took place in my neighborhood at the old Woodmont Dock on Puget Sound, Washington.

And I had never heard the story. Read the WHOLE story here.